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Terry Reid, the artists’ artist who was revered by the likes of Aretha Franklin and Mick Jagger, and nearly became the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, has died, The Guardian reports. He was 75. A rep for the British musician confirmed his death. An exact cause of death was not …

“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers may quibble, even with the presence of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and a reunited …

Luminate’s 2025 midyear report has arrived, and it has some surprising data: Rock is back. According to the report, rock came in second in the top U.S. core genre, ranked by on-demand audio streaming. It sits with 123.3 billion, behind hip-hop and R&B at 171.1 billion. But that’s not all: …

Singer-songwriter Jake Holmes has revived a long-dormant battle with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page over the songwriting credits for “Dazed and Confused.” Holmes’ new copyright infringement suit alleges that he has not received proper credit or royalties for early versions of “Dazed and Confused” performed by the Yardbirds, including a recording …

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time. By about 60 years. During most of those years, I was good at keeping …

Terry Manning, a music producer and engineer who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Big Star, and ZZ Top, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 77. Just two weeks earlier, a jovial Manning recalled working with Jimmy Page and other giants of the music biz in …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s an idyllic, sunny Tuesday afternoon in early March, and Pink is getting ready to play some tennis at Desert Smash, the celebrity and professional tennis charity event …

Forty-seven tracks into Rush 50 — a new career-spanning anthology presenting 50 songs across nearly five hours — a cool sonic Easter egg arrives. Near the beginning of “Headlong Flight,” a track from Rush’s final studio album, 2012’s Clockwork Angels, Alex Lifeson plays a slashing solo-guitar break, which Geddy Lee …

This interview was originally published on February 23, 2015. By the time Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti in 1975, they no longer needed to prove anything. “All of us knew that it was a monumental piece of work, just because of the various paths that we’d trodden along to get …

Fresh off of their Rock Hall nomination, the Black Crowes will revisit their time performing alongside Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page with a 25th-anniversary edition of their live album Live at the Greek. For the reissue, the original 20-song double album has been expanded to 36 tracks, each one newly remixed …